+nanochess Posted April 1, 2019 Share Posted April 1, 2019 Hi all. I'm doing the Colecovision version of Lunar Leeper, a game announced by Sierra Online and only published for C64, Atari 8-bit and Apple II. So far I've solved all the technical hurdles of it, mainly the scrolling engine and fitting all the required graphics for it. Also I've drawn all the required graphics. Apr/01/2019 lunar valley visuals working. Apr/03/2019 tunnel visuals working.Apr/14/2019 game completed now in testing. *Start of original joke of Apr/01/2019*Last night I was testing games with my CoolCV emulator in search of things that aren't emulated properly, I had a set of backup CD with ROMs from old times (probably made in 2005).One of these CD turned up to be interesting because it was a FTP directory that I downloaded in year 2000, it was simply named COLECO. I remember I downloaded many ROM files from FTP but didn't took note of site names.It was a pretty complete recopilation of the Colecovision games, but one game that brought my attention was LUNAR.ROM dated Nov/04/1996, probably dumped by someone. Interestingly I had tested all games before but this one didn't caught my attention because it was incomplete and I forget altogether about it, but this time (and after years of experience collecting Colecovision games) I recognized a prototype game!!! Lunar Leeper by Sierra Online. It's an incomplete game, but nice to see something like this after so many years! Enjoy it! *End of joke* https://youtu.be/qxfEidvDPmo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJfGeHP-BQ0 LUNAR.ROM LUNARCV1.ROM 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mumbai Posted April 1, 2019 Share Posted April 1, 2019 (edited) Do you recall the ftp server from which this file came? Just curious. Edited April 1, 2019 by mumbai Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ikrananka Posted April 1, 2019 Share Posted April 1, 2019 LOL - nice one. The description in your YouTube video gives the game away though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mumbai Posted April 1, 2019 Share Posted April 1, 2019 LOL - nice one. The description in your YouTube video gives the game away though I've been pranked! May this day pass quickly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alekmaul Posted April 1, 2019 Share Posted April 1, 2019 (edited) Nice Oscar, as usual. Edited April 1, 2019 by alekmaul 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+nanochess Posted April 1, 2019 Author Share Posted April 1, 2019 Do you recall the ftp server from which this file came? Just curious. ftp.nanochess.org LOL - nice one. The description in your YouTube video gives the game away though Haha I expected no one to read the video description So for now my personal prank mark is 32 minutes before discovery. I've been pranked! May this day pass quickly. Don't worry. You made me very happy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+eebuckeye Posted April 1, 2019 Share Posted April 1, 2019 Awesome! Thanks! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NIAD Posted April 1, 2019 Share Posted April 1, 2019 Nice one Nano! As soon as I saw Lunar Leeper, I knew it was an April Fools prank considering that was my guess for the CollectorVision proto that is yet to be revealed. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+nanochess Posted April 1, 2019 Author Share Posted April 1, 2019 Nice one Nano! As soon as I saw Lunar Leeper, I knew it was an April Fools prank considering that was my guess for the CollectorVision proto that is yet to be revealed. Glad you like it I think I found interesting the game so I had to do something. Then I should choose a more obscure prototype for next year Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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+nanochess Posted April 2, 2019 Author Share Posted April 2, 2019 I hope everyone enjoyed my little joke. Now looking forward to complete this game 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixelboy Posted April 2, 2019 Share Posted April 2, 2019 It will be interesting to see how you pull off the scrolling cavern sequence of the game. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+nanochess Posted April 3, 2019 Author Share Posted April 3, 2019 It will be interesting to see how you pull off the scrolling cavern sequence of the game. First post now includes video of the scrolling tunnel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixelboy Posted April 4, 2019 Share Posted April 4, 2019 First post now includes video of the scrolling tunnel Kewl. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TPR Posted April 4, 2019 Share Posted April 4, 2019 What a fun project! I always likes this game on the C64! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+nanochess Posted April 12, 2019 Author Share Posted April 12, 2019 Having advances with the game The Lunar Valley level is now fully playable. A little teaser. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+nanochess Posted April 18, 2019 Author Share Posted April 18, 2019 Lunar Leeper for Colecovision now finished and bug fixed, 7680 lines of Z80 assembler source code, 32K ROM and many graphics for the scrolling levels. Soon to be available from a known publisher https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAofcen-R5M 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ikrananka Posted April 19, 2019 Share Posted April 19, 2019 Fantastic - another vaporware game soon to become available. Great work. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NIAD Posted April 19, 2019 Share Posted April 19, 2019 Soon to be available from a known publisher Enough with the April Fools joke already! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixelboy Posted April 19, 2019 Share Posted April 19, 2019 Wait, you're telling me that when I was playing Learning With Leeper, I was actually playing as the bad guy??? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiwi Posted April 19, 2019 Share Posted April 19, 2019 (edited) Very smooth scrolling. Even the scrolling text on the bottom of the title screen is smooth scrolling. Very cool!!! Edited April 19, 2019 by Kiwi 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+nanochess Posted August 26, 2020 Author Share Posted August 26, 2020 Collectorvision now has copies for ordering!!! ? https://collectorvision.com/shop/colecovision/lunar-leeper-colecovision/ 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ikrananka Posted August 26, 2020 Share Posted August 26, 2020 1 hour ago, nanochess said: Collectorvision now has copies for ordering!!! ? https://collectorvision.com/shop/colecovision/lunar-leeper-colecovision/ Ordered ? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swami Posted August 27, 2020 Share Posted August 27, 2020 7 hours ago, nanochess said: Collectorvision now has copies for ordering!!! ? https://collectorvision.com/shop/colecovision/lunar-leeper-colecovision/ Ordered! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
youki Posted August 27, 2020 Share Posted August 27, 2020 This adaptation seems to be based on the C64 version instead of the original apple 2 version. Looks very well done! But no surprise with Nanochess. ? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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